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The video conferencing app is scrambling to accommodate hundreds of millions of people working from home.

David Culhane reports from Paris on the assassination of a French Roman Catholic Bishop at his Algerian home in Oran. Bishop Pierre Claverie (clah-VREE) was killed by a bomb. he is the 19th clergyman killed by suspected Muslim extremists who want to overthrow the government of Algeria.

talks to people who have fled from their homes and villages, in an effort to escape Israeli air attacks.

Linda talks with Captain Dan Manley of the Lee's Summit, Missouri Fire Department about the damage in that town from a "microburst" that struck the town overnight. Ten people were injured and one hundred nineteen homes damaged in the storm, which registered winds of one hundred ten to one hundred twenty miles per hour.

As travelers get ready to fly home for the holidays, the US Public Interest Research Group phoned travel agents and airlines around the country to check out the "lowest fares" for various trips. As NPR's Jim Zarroli reports, the group found that there were huge variations in the quotes they got for the lowest fares.

Voter turnout was unusually low this year...down in the vast majority of states, lower than it's been in at least 70 years. NPR's Howard Berkes reports on what may have kept voters at home...and also on why Westerners feel that early predictions from networks in the East might affect their decision to vote.

Hurricane Fran slammed into the Carolina coast overnight. The tidal surge washed away beaches and flooded homes. The storm is stil moving up the East Coast, leaving flooding and power outages in its wake. Aileen LeBlanc of member station WHQR in Wilmington, North Carolina reports.

a political science professor at Hendrix College, about politics in Arkansas. President Clinton should carry his home state easily in the presidential race, but Republicans are threatening to win House and Senate seats in the traditionally Democratic state.

Commentator Lydia Nayo just sold her beloved house, and wrestles with wanting to leave a page of instructions for the new owner on the kitchen counter. She would instruct anyone living in the house to throw open the blinds and enjoy the light in the morning, and to closely observe the lives of the neighbors from the front porch. Then this house they bought will become a home for them.

In South Africa yesterday, nearly a thousand homing pigeons participated in the world's first million-dollar pigeon race. Ed O'Laughlin (O'LOCK-lin) reports that pigeon facing, until now a poor man's sport, is turning glamorous, with breeders from Europe, the United States and Saudi Arabia and the lure of big prize money.